A brief aside to everyone - be careful when searching for old threads on Google - I got a nasty virus trying to find something on D'Angelo the other day.
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I could read 10 books in a row by him. His characters are the worst scum of the earth, and yet some how you end up cheering for them. Because even if they're murdering racist rapist hijo de putas, they're all American Individualists at heart who are bucking the system. It's like cheering for malaria-carrying blood-sucking mosquitoes, because they're always just one smack away from oblivion.
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posted 09.08.200717:03
I've started reading Ian Rankin's Rebus novels recently and I think they're pretty good. The Rebus character is almost cliched in a way - the hard drinking cop, with a strained relationship with his superiors, and a failed marriage etc, yet Rankin manages to pull it off, and make the character believable (although he isn't quite right in the first couple of novels). Rankin makes the most of Edinburgh as a setting too. Black and Blue is a good place to start (even though it's book 9 in the series)

James Ellroy is another good one. LA Confidential is brilliant, and well worth a read even if you saw the film. (I'm re-reading it now as it happens)
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She said they were very well researched, and she recommended that I start with the one called "Brimstone". I bought a copy, but haven't read it yet.
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